Re: [zfs-discuss] automate zpool scrub

2009-11-02 Thread Craig S. Bell
On a related note, it looks like Constantin is developing a nice SMF service for auto scrub: http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/entry/new_opensolaris_zfs_auto_scrub This is an adaptation of the well-tested auto snapshot service. Amongst other advantages, this approach means that you don't have t

Re: [zfs-discuss] automate zpool scrub

2009-11-01 Thread Enrico Maria Crisostomo
Glad it helped you. As far as it concerns your observation about the root user, please take into account that Solaris Role Based Access control lets you fine tune privileges you grant to users: your "ZFS administrator" needs not be root. Specifically, if you have a look at your /etc/prof_attr and

Re: [zfs-discuss] automate zpool scrub

2009-11-01 Thread Vano Beridze
I've looked at man cron and found out that I can modify /etc/default/cron file to set PATH that is defaulted for /usr/bin for mortal users and /usr/bin:/usr/sbin for root. I did not change /etc/default/cron file, instead I've indicated full path in my crontab file. Ethically speaking I guess s

Re: [zfs-discuss] automate zpool scrub

2009-11-01 Thread Enrico Maria Crisostomo
It's ok to use zpool full path. Nontheless, I'd suggest you read crontab man page to learn how you can set some options, such as paths, shell, timezones and so on directly into your crontab files. On Nov 1, 2009, at 16:45, Vano Beridze wrote: Now I've logged in and there was a mail saying t

Re: [zfs-discuss] automate zpool scrub

2009-11-01 Thread Alex Blewitt
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Vano Beridze wrote: > Now I've logged in and there was a mail saying that cron did not found zpool > > it's in my path > which zpool > /usr/sbin/spool > > Does cron use different PATH setting? Yes. Typically your PATH is set up by various shell initialisations whic

Re: [zfs-discuss] automate zpool scrub

2009-11-01 Thread Vano Beridze
Now I've logged in and there was a mail saying that cron did not found zpool it's in my path which zpool /usr/sbin/spool Does cron use different PATH setting? Is it ok to specify /usr/sbin/zpool in crontab file? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] automate zpool scrub

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Vano Beridze wrote: where can I see the output of the cron job? man cron... cron captures the output of the job's stdout and stderr streams, and, if it is not empty, mails the output to the user. If the job does not produce output, no mail is sent to the user. -- And

Re: [zfs-discuss] automate zpool scrub

2009-11-01 Thread Vano Beridze
where can I see the output of the cron job? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] automate zpool scrub

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Vano Beridze wrote: Hello I've got OpenSolaris 2009.06 I've created crontab entry using crontab -e command and crontab -l gives me the output 0 12 * * 0 pfexec zpool scrub rpool On sunday at 12:10 AM zpool status told me that scrub was not done. svcs | grep cron online Oct_27 svc:/s

[zfs-discuss] automate zpool scrub

2009-11-01 Thread Vano Beridze
Hello I've got OpenSolaris 2009.06 I've created crontab entry using crontab -e command and crontab -l gives me the output 0 12 * * 0 pfexec zpool scrub rpool On sunday at 12:10 AM zpool status told me that scrub was not done. svcs | grep cron online Oct_27 svc:/system/cron:default Wh